Combining Sentiment Lexica with a Multi-View Variational Autoencoder
When assigning quantitative labels to a dataset, different methodologies may rely on different scales. In particular, when assigning polarities to words in a sentiment lexicon, annotators may use binary, categorical, or continuous labels. Naturally, it is of interest to unify these labels from disparate scales to both achieve maximal coverage over words and to create a single, more robust sentiment lexicon while retaining scale coherence. We introduce a generative model of sentiment lexica to combine disparate scales into a common latent representation. We realize this model with a novel multi-view variational autoencoder (VAE), called SentiVAE. We evaluate our approach via a downstream text classification task involving nine English-Language sentiment analysis datasets; our representation outperforms six individual sentiment lexica, as well as a straightforward combination thereof.
Code (1)
Tasks
General ClassificationSentiment Analysistext-classificationText ClassificationMethods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Variational Semi-supervised Aspect-term Sentiment Analysis via Transformer
Aspect-term sentiment analysis (ATSA) is a longstanding challenge in natural language understanding. It requires fine-grained semantical reasoning about a target entity appeared in the text. As manual annotation over the…
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)Natural Language UnderstandingSentiment AnalysisVariational InferenceJoint Emotion Label Space Modelling for Affect Lexica
Emotion lexica are commonly used resources to combat data poverty in automatic emotion detection. However, vocabulary coverage issues, differences in construction method and discrepancies in emotion framework and represe…
Emotion RecognitionvalidUsing Pivot-Based Paraphrasing and Sentiment Profiles to Improve a Subjectivity Lexicon for Essay Data
We demonstrate a method of improving a seed sentiment lexicon developed on essay data by using a pivot-based paraphrasing system for lexical expansion coupled with sentiment profile enrichment using crowdsourcing. Profil…
General ClassificationSentenceSentiment AnalysisComparing and Combining Sentiment Analysis Methods
Several messages express opinions about events, products, and services, political views or even their author's emotional state and mood. Sentiment analysis has been used in several applications including analysis of the …
Sentiment Analysis